4.26.2010

Level had 31 manga, manhwa, and manhua titles on tap for April and scheduled 23 of them. There were seven European comics slated in the April Komikologi, but by month's end, Level will have made good on only three of them. Still, not so bad; that's 0.87 manga/comic per day.

A 26-episode anime adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment (formerly Tokyo Movie Shinsha) aired on TV Tokyo from April to September 2001, with seiyuu Canna Nobutoshi as Takatsuki Ryo, Takayama Minami as Kuruma Kei, Ueda Yuji as Tomoe Takeshi, and Miki Shinichiro as Shingu Hayato. The sequel Project ARMS: The 2nd Chapter (episodes 27-52) was telecast from October 2001 through March 2002.

AWARDS: Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President was nominated for five Eisner Awards (The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards), including Best New Series, Best Continuing Series, Best Writer/Artist, Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material (2001 and 2002)

Three episodes of the Gunsmith Cats OAV animated by Oriental Light and Magic were released between November 1995 and September 1996. The anime starred seiyuu Araki Kae as Minnie May Hopkins and Neya Michiko as Rally Vincent

A Screen Gems film adaptation starring Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif, Stephen Moyer, Lily Collins, Madchen Amick, and Alan Dale is scheduled for a 14 January 2011 in 3D premiere in the U.S. It has been formerly slated for an August 2010 release.

Adapted into live-action renzoku drama. Alternatively known as Simply Psychic, it ran for two seasons on NTV (January to March 1997 and October to December 1999). A one-episode, 45-minute anime OAV Eiji was released in August 1990.

A 24-episode anime adaptation by Production I.G aired from April to September 2006 in Japan, followed by a 13-episode sequel xxxHOLiC: Kei (2008.04 to 2008.06) and a two-episode OAD xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki (2009.02 to 2009.06). The xxxHOLiC Rō OAD is slated for release 23 April 2010, along with manga volume 17. A theatrical film adaptation xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream premiered in Japan before the first anime season (2005.08.20). Seiyuu Fukuyama Jun and Ohara Sayaka play the roles of Kimihiro Watanuki and Ichihara Yuko in all adaptations.

NOTE(1) Source: Komikologi April 2010 issue
(2) Despite its exclusion from the April list, included Angel Heart 3 as its volume preview appears in the bulletin
(3) Links like this are Amazon.com search and/or product links (commercial), in case you're interested in another language version.